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Phishing for Credit
An anonymous reader writes "Two graduate students at Indiana University conducted a phishing study to
determine how readily students will give up personal information if
the phishing emails appear to come from close friends. Using only
publicly available
information, they sent out emails to students asking them to click a
link that required username/password information. Needless to say,
the study has generated lots of attention on campus. The student
newspaper has the story
and the researchers have created a blog where the participants can vent."
...the school throws a fit and disciplines them.
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I think it's pretty clear to everyone that these students didn't follow proper procedure for research studies. When I did human experimental research, I had to have my research proposal approved by the Institutional Review Board at my college.
That being said, I hope this gets tons of media coverage. People should be talking about this at home, at work, at school, everywhere. I'm constantly having to tell friends and relatives not to enter any personal information into a computer without knowing where it's going to end up. People just don't get it, and maybe they will if they're scared about the things that could happen because of their carelessness, including financial losses and risks to personal safety.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: That averages about 660,000,000 of each kind.